Ceiling Finishes and Material Takeoffs for the Music Room Including Composite, Metal, and Gypsum

Detailed Ceiling Material Takeoffs for Music Room: Composite Siding, Galvanized Trim, and Gypsum Installation

Explore the process of completing the ceilings in different rooms of a building project, specifically focusing on the intricacies of a music room. Learn how to consider different elements such as composite siding, curved beams, galvanized sheet metal wrap, and gypsum ceilings to finalize the project.

Key Insights

  • When working on the ceilings of a music room, factors like the type of roofing, the presence of a gypsum ceiling, and the specific details of the room’s structure must be taken into consideration.
  • By using specific tools and software, one can accurately take off areas for composite siding, galvanized metal, and gypsum ceilings, ensuring precision in the construction process.
  • Understanding the interplay of different construction elements, such as composite siding under the awning, curved beams with a specific radius, and the use of galvanized sheet metal wrap, is crucial for creating a coherent and structurally sound design.

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And now that we have completed our ceilings in the guest bedroom, we're going to jump over to the music room and finish out our ceilings over there. We know that the music room, the interior ceiling here is going to be, let's look at this note number 10. Again, it's like the roof framing per structural.

16 is going to be standing seam metal roofing, which we've already taken off. We'll just assume that there's going to be a gypsum ceiling inside of the music room. But let's actually double check this sheet 10 detail here.

We've got eight and two could be some relevant details. Two just says composite siding under the awning. Okay, so that's good to know.

There's going to be some composite siding there, which we can add. And then eight is going to be curved beam with a certain radius inside. So those exposed blue lamp beams, they're going to be exposed.

There isn't necessarily a call out for what goes in between them. My assumption is that it's just going to be a finished drywall ceiling, which I think is what we're going to take off. And then at the underside of the music room or the ceiling of the area below, we can see that we've got these details 5,6, and 5. So 5 is going to be a 25 gauge galvanized sheet metal wrap.

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6 is going to be 2 × 6 composite siding, similar to the awnings and the overhangs. Okay, so we've got an area of composite siding here. We've got an area of composite siding, which is 2 × 6 boards down here as well.

We've got a galvanized metal kind of vent wrapping for details 5. And then we've got a gypsum ceiling inside where this note number 8 is. So all right, now we have a pretty good understanding of what to do here. Let's go ahead and run some of these takeoffs.

Let's go ahead and just start with the composites to get that out of the way. So let's look at what sheet we want to use to do these takeoffs on. Let's do it on here.

So the composite, like we said, is going to be this overhang section here. We will take that off, and then we will also take off this big section. So underneath that will be the composite.

And then we'll do our galvanized metal as kind of this little piece here, as well as this piece here leading into this dotted line. So let's grab an area takeoff. And from this area takeoff, actually, you know what? Let's look back into our tool chest here, and let's see if we do have any composite siding items.

Yeah, okay, look. We do have a composite siding. Let's take this.

Let's double click on that, and let's duplicate it. We've got composite siding here. Now let's just take this duplicate, and let's turn this into a two by six composite siding.

And we'll just specifically say that this type is going to be at the music room. We've got two by six siding, composite siding at the music room. And we do want to make sure that we have this fiber cement siding.

Perfect. Okay, so before we do this takeoff, let's just double check our understanding. What we're going to do is go back to sheet number 10.

When we go back to sheet number 10, we're going to see again that this note number two composite siding is just going to be in the overhang, so past this wall right here. And then number six, two by six composite siding is just going to be in kind of the flat bottom part of the underside of the ceiling. Okay, let's go ahead and run these takeoffs then.

So let's go back to our sheet number six. And okay, so our composite is going to be here, leading up to this solid line. So from the exterior out, that's going to be our composite there.

And then this all is also going to be our composite. Let's make sure that we have these right. We'll just pull that corner over to be accurate.

And let's double check what we got there. So composite is going to be from edge of outside wall to inside, basically wall to wall is where our composite is going to be. Let's make sure that we got that accurately.

Let's pull this out a little bit further. Make sure that we captured from wall all the way into the wall. And then on the overhang portion of it, we've got from wall to edge is where our kind of ceiling is going to be.

We've got the composite down here, and we've got the composite here. We are all good to go there. Let's go ahead and do this galvanized metal.

And we're going to also take the same takeoff as our standing seam if we can do that. So let's go back to our tool chest here. Let's see if we can find our standing seam.

I believe we did that in some sort of like a pink color here. Yeah, perfect. So here looks to be our standing seam.

Let's go ahead and change that first back into properties mode. When we have it changed, let's click on it and let's duplicate it. Again, when we duplicate it, we can go into here and we'll say instead of standing seam metal roof, we'll just say galvanized.

What was the terminology that we were using here? Sorry, let me get my thumbnails back out and go back to this detail. Detail five, detail five, 24 gauge galvanized sheet metal. We're just calling it galvanized sheet metal.

Okay, we'll just call it galvanized sheet metal. I'm going to call it like a trim, trim at the music room. Music room.

Okay, so let's go ahead and run this takeoff. Got that galvanized sheet metal all set up. Let's go ahead here and what this is going to be is really just our kind of overhang area and then again our underside here.

Awesome. So the pink again is going to be our galvanized metal that's at the underside of the ceilings. The green, it's a little bit confusing.

This big section of green is going to be our underside of the ceiling, which is the composite two by six. This portion of green outside of the wall line is going to be up at the ceiling level and that's going to be the composite as well. The last thing we have to take off is going to be our finished gypsum ceiling here and the finished gypsum ceiling is going to go in between the glue laminated beams of the music room.

So what we're going to do, let's just go ahead and save our work now. We just did a lot of stuff. I don't want to take a chance on losing that.

Okay, so let's go ahead to our gypsum ceiling. Let's actually just maybe click on that gypsum ceiling there and let's just go ahead and set that to the default and grab an area takeoff here. Again, when we set something to the default, anytime we take a takeoff of that same type, it's going to automatically pull that takeoff back for us.

So what we're going to do here is we are just going to run some gypsum ceilings and we're going to do it in between these glue lam beams and it's only going to be in the interior of the rooms. We're going to go ahead and hit escape here just so I can shift this one to make sure I get it totally right. Perfect.

So let's go back to that area. Awesome. And we're just going to keep taking off these areas in between our glue lam beams.

Perfect. Next one. Not that.

Down to there. Yep. Excellent.

Making sure that we've got all these right here. Let's just do a little cleanup of our corners, making sure that we're going all the way down to where we need to go. Got that ceiling, get the extents of this totally accurate.

All right. Perfect. We'll go back up and select our area again.

Let's go to the edge of the glue lam and then over again. And one more time just for this little corner section here, making sure that we are all taken off with these ceilings. And great.

We've done that. Let's just go ahead and pull this little section in here too. Make sure that we're not forgetting anything.

All right. So that right there is going to be all of our music room ceilings of both the underside of it as well as the interior of the ceiling. And just to recap, so down at the underside of it, we captured the composite siding in the green.

We captured the galvanized metal trims for detail number five in the pink. And up at the top part for the ceiling of the kind of interior level, we've captured the composite for this detail number two in the green. And there wasn't necessarily a call out for a specific gypsum finish ceiling in here, but we did add a gypsum finish ceiling in between these glue lam beams because it does appear that these glue lam beams are to be exposed.

With that, we will save our work and move on to the next section.

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Ed Wenz

Ed started Wenz Consulting after 35 years as a professional estimator. He continues to work on various projects while also dedicating time to teaching and training through Wenz Consulting and VDCI. Ed has over 10 years of experience in Sage Estimating Development and Digital Takeoff Systems and has an extensive background in Construction Software and Communications Technology. Ed enjoys spending his free time with his wife and grandchildren in San Diego.

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